A exclusão na escrita de si: o discurso jurídico em cartas de adolescentes privados de liberdade

Abstract

This article aims to understand, through the writing of self in letters from adolescents deprived of liberty addressed to their families, how exclusion manifests itself discursively in the process of subjectivation. As theoretical assumptions, we seek contributions from the foundations of French Discourse Analysis, especially from the works of Foucault (2012, 2013, 2014, 2017). It is worth noting that the analysis takes into account the discourse inscribed in history, based on a “writing of self”. We analyze, through Discursive Formations (DF), how the subjects who are under custody relate to each other from the place where they are — the custody —, in order to understand how the representations they make of this place permeate their process of subjectivation through legal discourse. The results point to the silencing of these adolescents due to the fact that the letters, when violated, go through a control system.